December 16, 2007

Coherence and Chronology in Digital Design Manifestation





ABSTRACT

Today architects take advantage of great possibilities using computational design tools in order to design, model, generate and develop three dimensional models using CAD software, scipts and mathematical algorithms. Still, the greatest challenge is to think about new technologies in order to fabricate 3D design structures on a realistic scale.


For example
the idea of “parameters” has impregnated the digital world. Today it is possible to find design products and prototypes that respond directly to a set of parameters that have been planed out or developed to fit a specific need.


Robert Aish has archived the most impressive works in this field.

François Roche of R&Sie architects attempts seeking a form of a dialogue with it that is entropic and organic. In his project I’ve heard about… his idea was to create an urban structure growing out of itsself. The project brings together an interesting amount of emergent digital tools.


William Gibson founded the term “cyberspace” in his novel
Neuromancer. He used this new term for environments, made possible by the networking of computers, where characters inhabited virtually. Marcos Novak took Gibson’s description as the starting point for his own theoretical and artistic explorations. He defines the term of “liquid architectures in cyberspace” to include new attitudes toward the organization of information. While mapping three-dimensional algorithmic composition onto cyberspace he composes variations of information, another as a three dimensional shape.


The movement
toward digital building simulation will re-instill the understanding that architects indeed play a vital, central, and pivotal role in the design and construction processes. “Building Information Modeling” systems organize the information surrounding a building project in one or more databases. Using this technology, the architect does not directly make drawings, but enters information in these databases using a variety of means.

The age of digital Design and digital building simulation is an emergent discussion in actual architecture debates.




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